Registry Question & Updates

In the Updates section of the Registry on XP Home, I have a number of
keys corresponding ot updates, but there are no values or data
associated with the keys.

Does this mean somebody hacked the Registry in order to fool Windows
Update?

Or do some updates normally install, create a key, but create no data
or values for the keys?

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<*((((><{ wrote:

> In the Updates section of the Registry on XP Home, I have a number of
> keys corresponding ot updates, but there are no values or data
> associated with the keys.
>
> Does this mean somebody hacked the Registry in order to fool Windows
> Update?

Very unlikely...


> Or do some updates normally install, create a key, but create no data
> or values for the keys?

Where in the registry are you seeing this?


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Here's an example:


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind owsXP\SP2\KB821557]
@=""

I've got a number of keys where = is blank. Is it supposed to be like
that?

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In the last exciting episode on Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:50:14 +0100,
"Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)" <Torgeir.Bakken-> wrote:

|<*((((><{ wrote:
|
|> In the Updates section of the Registry on XP Home, I have a number of
|> keys corresponding ot updates, but there are no values or data
|> associated with the keys.
|>
|> Does this mean somebody hacked the Registry in order to fool Windows
|> Update?
|
|Very unlikely...
|
|
|> Or do some updates normally install, create a key, but create no data
|> or values for the keys?
|
|Where in the registry are you seeing this?
|
|
|--
|torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
|Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
|the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
|http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx

More precisely,

These keys all have the same Value, Name, Type, and Data:
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data:

Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\KB821557
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\KB823559
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\KB823980
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\KB824146
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q323255
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q328310
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q329048
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q329115
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q329170
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q329390
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q329441
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q329834
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q331953
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q810565
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q810577
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q810833
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q811493
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q811630
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q814033
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q815021
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q817287
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\Q817606


<*((((><{


In the last exciting episode on Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:50:14 +0100,
"Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)" <Torgeir.Bakken-> wrote:

|<*((((><{ wrote:
|
|> In the Updates section of the Registry on XP Home, I have a number of
|> keys corresponding ot updates, but there are no values or data
|> associated with the keys.
|>
|> Does this mean somebody hacked the Registry in order to fool Windows
|> Update?
|
|Very unlikely...
|
|
|> Or do some updates normally install, create a key, but create no data
|> or values for the keys?
|
|Where in the registry are you seeing this?
|
|
|--
|torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
|Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
|the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
|http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx